Table Of ContentAY Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture  68: 321-324, 2002. 
CONTENTS  Volume 68  2002 
Volume 68  No. 1 
Reviews of Plant Biotechnology and Applied Genetics 
Genetic diversity and conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources 
V. Ramanatha  Rao, T. Hodgkin 
Regular articles 
Somatic embryogenesis of the banana hybrid cultivar FHIA-18 (AAAB) in liquid medium 
and scaled-up in a bioreactor 
R. Gomez  Kosky,  M. de Feria Silva,  L.P.  Pérez,  T. Gilliard,  F.B. Martinez,  M.R. Vega,  M.C. 
Milian, E.Q. Mendoza 
Factors affecting direct organogenesis from flower explants of Allium giganteum 
A. SuSek, B. Javornik, B. Bohanec 
Micropropagation of the Mediterranean tree Ceratonia siliqua 
A. Romano, S. Barros, M.A. Martins-Lougao 
Establishment and characterization of Rubus tissue culture systems for in vitro bioas- 
says against phytotoxins from Rubus fungal pathogens 
P.J. Hollmann,  G.K. Lohbrunner, S.F. Shamoun,  S.P. Lee 
Meristem culture and virus eradication  in Alstroemeria 
A. Chiari, M.P. Bridgen 
Effect of 2,4-p and 4-CPPU on somatic embryogenesis from stigma and style transverse 
thin cell layers of Citrus 
S. Fiore, F. De Pasquale,  F. Carimi, M. Sajeva 
Adventitious shoot regeneration from immature embryos of sorghum 
T. Hagio 
influence  of auxins on organogenesis and ginsenoside production  in Panax ginseng 
calluses 
M. Bonfill, R.M. Cusido, J. Palazon, M.T. Pifol, C. Morales 
Growing of potato microplants  in the presence  of alginate-silverthiosulfate  capsules 
reduces ethylene-induced  culture abnormalities  during minimal  growth conservation 
in vitro 
D. Sarkar, K.C. Sud, S.K. Chakrabarti,  PS. Naik 
Pinoresinol and matairesinol accumulation in a Forsythia x intermedia cell suspension 
culture 
J. Schmitt, M. Petersen 
Research notes 
Rapid clonal  multiplication  of Lavandula  viridis  LHér through  in vitro axillary  shoot 
proliferation 
M.C. Dias, R. Almeida, A. Romano
322 
Addition  of nickel  to Murashige  and  Skoog medium  in plant tissue culture  activates 
urease and may reduce metabolic stress 
C.-P. Witte, S.A. Tiller, M.A. Taylor, H.V. Davies  103-104 
Volume 68  No. 2 
Reviews of Plant Biotechnology and Applied Genetics 
Secondary metabolism  in tobacco 
L.H. Nugroho,  R. Verpoorte  105-125 
Regular articles 
Somatic embryogenesis in perennial statice Limonium bellidifolium,  Plumbaginaceae 
M.A.M. Aly, B. Rathinasabapathi,  K. Kelley  127-135 
Micropropagation  and synthetic seed  in M.26 apple rootstock  (Il):  A new  protocol for 
production of encapsulated differentiating propagules 
R. Brischia,  E. Piccioni, A. Standardi,  137-141 
Micropropagation and field evaluation of micropropagated plants of turmeric 
N.D. Salvi, L. George, S. Eapen  143-151 
The morphological variability within a population of coffee somatic embryos produced 
in a bioreactor affects the regeneraticn and the development of plants in the nursery 
D. Barry-Etienne,  B. Bertrand, A. Schisnvoigt, H. Etienne  153-162 
Induction of RNase and nuclease activity in cultured maize endosperm cells following 
sucrose starvation 
D.R. Gallie, S.-C. Chang, T.E. Young  163-170 
Effects of nutritional factors on the formation  of Anthraquinones in callus cultures of 
Rheum ribes 
M. Farzami Sepehr, M. Ghorbanii  171-175 
Effect of selectable gene to reporter gene ratio on the frequency of co-transformation 
and co-expression of uidA and hpt transgenes in protoplast-derived plants of tall fes- 
cue 
A.J.E. Bettany, S.J. Dalton, E. Timms, M.S. Dhanoa, P. Morris  177-186 
Effect of hydrogen  peroxide on synthesis of proteins during somatic embryogenesis 
in Lycium barbarum 
C. Kairong, L. Ji, X. Gengmei,  L. Jianlong, W. Lihong, W. Yafu  187-193 
Evaluation  of  a  new  culture  method  for  mass-propagation  of  a  photoperiod- 
temperature sensitive genic male sterile rice strain N19S 
G.-Z. Zheng, Y.-S. Yang, X.-H. Chen, B.-H. Wan  195-202 
Research note 
Adventitious shoot organogenesis and plant regeneration from cotyledons of Dalber- 
gia sissoo Roxb., a timber yielding tree legume 
A.K. Singh, S. Chand, S. Pattnaik, PK. Chand  203-209
Book review 
Metabolic Engineering of Plant Secondary Metabolism 
A. Scragg  211-212 
Volume 68  No.3 
Special Section on /n Vitro Culture of Medicinal  Plants. Part II 
Guest Editor:  Praveen K. Saxena 
Editorial 
PK. Saxena  213 
Study of paclitaxel prodution from an antifungal variant of Taxus callus 
X. Su, X. Mei, W. Gong  215-223 
A specific  role  for spermidine  in the  initiation  phase  of somatic  embryogenesis  in 
Panax ginseng CA Meyer 
M. Monteiro, C. Kevers, J. Dommes, T. Gaspar  225-232 
Explant preparation  affects culture  initiation  and regeneration  of Panax ginseng and 
Panax quinquefolius 
W.-L. Teng, T. Sin, M.-C. Teng  233-239 
High frequency plant regeneration from Aralia cordata somatic embryos 
K.-S. Lee, J.-C. Lee, W.-Y. Soh  241-246 
High frequency of bulblet regeneration from bulb scale sections of Fritillaria thunbergii 
K.Y. Paek, H.N. Murthy  247-252 
Somatic  embryogenesis  and plant regeneration  from  immature  embryos of saw  pal- 
metto, an important landscape and medicinal plant 
M. Gallo-Meagher, J. Green  253-256 
llex paraguariensis cell suspension culture characterization and response against eth- 
anol 
K.H. Kraemer,  E.P. Schenkel,  R. Verpoorte  257-263 
Regular articles 
Effect of phytohormones on growth and alkaloid accumulation  by a Catharanthus ros- 
eus cell suspension cultures fed with alkaloid precursors tryptamine and loganin 
M. El-Sayed, R. Verpoorte  265-270 
Callus and cell suspension  cultures  of Rudgea jasminoides,  a tropical  woody Rubi- 
aceae 
A. Stella, M.R. Braga  271-276 
Phenotypic characterization and bulk segregant analysis of anther culture response in 
two backcross families of diploid potato 
T. Boluarte-Medina,  R.E. Veilleux  277-286 
The uptake of copper ions by cell suspension  cultures of Agave amaniensis,  and its 
effect on the growth, amino acids and hecogenin content 
S. Kartosentono,  G. Indrayanto, N.C. Zaini  287-292
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Alkaloid formation in cell suspension cultures of Tabernaemontana elegans after feed- 
ing of tryptamine and loganin or secologanin 
E. Lucumi, A. Vera, D. Hallard,  R. van der Heijden, R. Verpoorte  293-299 
Enhanced  rate of multiplication  and rooting through the use of coir in aseptic  liquid 
culture media 
G. Gangopadhyay,  S. Das, S.K. Mitra, R. Poddar, B.K. Modak, K.K. Mukherjee  301-310 
Research note 
Direct plant regeneration from leaf explants of Plumbago species 
G. Das, G.R. Rout  311-314 
Instructions for authors  315-318 
Author index  319 
Contents Volume 68  321-324